Interlibrary Loan

Use interlibrary loan for the full text of articles that ASU Library does not have a subscription. In general, you will receive a pdf file of articles and they will be available through your online interlibrary loan account.

Books in the ASU Library

Below is a sample of books available on the topic of genetically modified crops:

A multidisciplinary article database which covers thousands of mostly English-language popular magazines and scholarly (including peer-reviewed) journals. Includes topics in the social sciences, humanities, general science, education and most areas of academic study. Content may fluctuate at the publishers’ discretion.

AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) is a bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library (NAL) and its cooperators. Production of these records in electronic form began in 1970, but the database covers materials in all formats, including printed works from the 15th century. Indexes journal articles, book chapters, monographs, series, microforms, audiovisuals, maps, etc

Enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.

An Abstract/Citation Database, PubMed indexes citations for articles from medical journals as well as citations from general science and chemistry journals whose life sciences articles are indexed in MEDLINE.

Scopus is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and web sources with tools to track, analyze, and visualize research. Scopus provides access to a broad portfolio of peer-reviewed content from around the world.

Provides access to bibliographic information and cited references from more than 3,000 of the world's leading social sciences journals in a broad range of disciplines. It is part of the Web of Science, this link takes you to just the social sciences section.

SocINDEX™ with Full Text is a social sciences research database, covering a wide spectrum of disciplines, such as gender studies, justice studies, economics, development, psychology, social work, and others. It offers in-depth coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. It is primarily journal articles with some books/ebooks, working papers, dissertations, and conference proceedings. It also includes author profiles of the most prolific authors.

Provides access to current bibliographic information and cited references covering more than one thousand journals in arts and humanities, over 5,800 journals in scientific and technical, and over 1,700 journals in social sciences.

General Literature

Opposing Viewpoints in Context provides materials supporting different points of view on current social issues. The materials include viewpoint articles, contextual topic overviews, government and organizational statistics, biographies of social activists, court cases, profiles of government agencies and special interest groups, newspaper and magazine articles, scholarly articles and links to subject-indexed web sites.

Background Information

A service from Congressional Quarterly Inc. providing access to political and social policy analysis, political profiles of countries, profiles of members of congress, analysis of supreme court decisions, and statistical data on American politics.

Use the "Search within this book" link before entering your search terms. The ASU Subscription does not included full-text articles after 2010. However, you can get access to current articles by requesting them through Interlibrary loan.

Full text collection of several thousand reference works for most areas of engineering, technology and the sciences. Works include handbooks, manuals, encyclopedias, data compilations and regular texts. In addition to keyword searching, features also include property data searching, periodic table, a unit converter and interactive equations.